1. islands west of Sicily (now known as the Egadi Islands) where the Romans won a naval victory over the Carthaginians that ended the first Punic War in 241 BC; [syn: Aegates Isles, Aegadean Isles]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Aegates Isles
n 1: islands west of Sicily (now known as the Egadi Islands)
where the Romans won a naval victory over the Carthaginians
that ended the first Punic War in 241 BC [syn: Aegates
Isles, Aegadean Isles]